Export Orbit

• Many popular sky simulator programs exist on the market that allow the display of asteroids along with planets, stars and other objects. Typically the orbits used for the asteroids are fixed at a reference epoch and thus are not accurate for times several months beyond the reference epoch. Asteroid PRO can be an excellent companion to these other programs by providing extremely accurate orbital elements adjusted to any epoch. This screen allows the perturbed orbital elements calculated within Asteroid PRO to be exported to text files that can be used directly or conveniently modified as necessary for accurate display of asteroid positions in the other programs.

• Formats are provided for Epoch 2000 (Farpoint Research), The Sky (Software Bisque), and Dance of the Planets (ARC), as well as a generic format suitable for additional modification by a text editor if necessary.